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 Workin'
It
This week, the biz dev gang took me out to celebrate my birthday.
We had a really nice lunch at a Japanese place. Later in the
afternoon, the Human Resources department where I'm currently
working had an ice cream cake in my honor. I ate the vegan
fruit cup instead of joining them.
 School
My Saturday class was supposed to start this week, but it
got canceled. Because of the long weekend, I won't have to
start school for another week.
The Birthday Week
Jan. 17, 1961: President Eisenhower, in his farewell
address, warned against the rise of "the military-industrial
complex."
The birthday has finally arrived, have you been COUNTING
DOWN THE DAYS? For some reason, this year's birthday had a
lot more singing going on...
Puppy's Plush Pad
Now that my pal Puppy is paying about $30k a year in rent,
he's decided to kit out the pad. What better way to do it
than to shop at the furniture show. It's for interior designer
types only, but I pulled a few strings and got us a couple
of passes. The vendors sell their samples at the end of the
show and it was really fun to have a wander.
We saw some great pieces, but none really fit with Puppy's
vision. The only thing he bought was a leather chair that
was super comfortable. Its sort of triangular and low slung
and as soon as he gets it home, I'll snap a pic for you.
 Drums
of War
This week, it seems like a wide variety of media were rambling
about the amount of secrecy in the Bush Administration. You
know it's pretty bad when hard-core, right-wing conservatives
join in the chorus for more openness.
The really big war news this week was the emergence or resurgence
(depends on your side of the fence) of a massive peace movement.
Millions of people took to the streets all over the world
for virtually simultaneous, global demonstrations against
Bush's war for oil. In the U.S., tens of thousands gathered
in Washington DC and San Francisco. While on my way to school,
I saw some of the crowds in SF and I was amazed to see people
from all walk of life. It wasn't just a bunch of hippies,
students or radical types. It was white, middle class, suburban
families alongside ethnically urban folk. Such a broad demographic
and grassroots organizing spread all over the country opposing
the war means that the shrub is in for a rough time as he
tries to railroad onto his war path.
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